Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among other projects, what was one of the largest publishing houses in the United States.

Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.

Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Rule of Faith: Delivered at Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Annual Meeting of the American Bible Society, and Published at Their Request For the best argument Ihave seen in favour of the views of Romanists, the reader may be referred to the controversial writings of that very learned and elegant writer, Bossuet. On the other side of the question, he will' find much to interest and instruct him in Prideaux's Connections in a Lec ture on Oral Tradition, by the late Dr. Fletcher, of London; in the Essays of the late Dr. Ewing, of Glasgow, on The Authority, Scope, and Consum mation of the Law and the prophets in an Essay by John Glass on Un written Tradition 3 and. In Gelmet's Dictionary, in loco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.